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Today we are learning about artist Wassily Kandinsky!
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter and printmaker in the 20th century! He is one of the artists who helped people change how they look at art, and start to appreciate abstract works. He was a very smart man who played many instruments, studied many subjects, and created revolutionary works of art!
Today we are learning about artist Wassily Kandinsky!
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter and printmaker in the 20th century! He is one of the artists who helped people change how they look at art, and start to appreciate abstract works. He was a very smart man who played many instruments, studied many subjects, and created revolutionary works of art!
He went to college at the University of Moscow to study law and economics. He did very well in school and went on to be a teacher and a deep thinker. When he was 30, he started painting and sketching still lifes and people. He loved it so much that he went back to school to learn more about art. Once again, he became a teacher, but this time he taught art at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture, a very famous place!
| In his life, Kandinsky was always fascinated by color, especially as a child. He related color with symbolism and psychology (how our brains work). It is believed that he may have had a medical condition that allowed him to see colors when he heard music and other sounds! He went from drawing lifelike figures to painting abstract shapes and colors. He would often listen to music as he painted, and he was able to play many instruments. Do you listen to music while you paint? Do different kinds of music make you want to use different colors? |  |
Art Break!
Be sure to listen to different kinds of music while you paint. Try to relate what you are painting to the colors you are using in your work!
Fold your paper in half hotdog style. Keep it folded and fold it again, hamburger style. Now, one more hamburger style fold! Open your paper, and you will have 8 rectangles.
On one rectangle, paint a red dot. On the next one, paint a red ring, and on the next one paint a large red circle. Rinse your brush!
On you red dot rectangle, paint a yellow ring around the dot. In the next one, and paint a yellow dot in the middle of your red ring. Continue with this until you have filled all of your circles to look like Kandinsky!
Fold your paper in half hotdog style. Keep it folded and fold it again, hamburger style. Now, one more hamburger style fold! Open your paper, and you will have 8 rectangles.
On one rectangle, paint a red dot. On the next one, paint a red ring, and on the next one paint a large red circle. Rinse your brush!
On you red dot rectangle, paint a yellow ring around the dot. In the next one, and paint a yellow dot in the middle of your red ring. Continue with this until you have filled all of your circles to look like Kandinsky!
